Bot. [f. prec. + Gr. καρπ-ός fruit. So F. sporocarpe.] A fructification containing sporangia; a spore-fruit or spore-case.

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1849.  Balfour, Man. Bot., § 1127. In the higher Algæ, the sporocarps … are united together in conceptacles.

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1857.  [see SPORE 3].

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1880.  Bessey, Bot., 327. Upon the mycelium there arise … small rounded or oblong masses, the young sporocarps.

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